University of Southern Indiana Men’s Track & Field senior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) will have a chance to defend his national championship in the mile next weekend at the NCAA II Indoor Championships in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Grau qualified for the championships with a provisional time of four minutes, 4.51 seconds, when he won the Arkansas Qualifier. His time ranks eighth of the 16 runners competing.
At last year’s championships, Grau won the title in 4:05.70.
Grau’s time also earned him All-Midwest Region honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. His time was second fastest in the Midwest Region.
The senior earned second team All-Great Lakes Valley Conference after finishing second at the GLVC Championships in the mile last weekend, as teammate sophomore Javan Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee) narrowly beat him in a photo finish. He was also second team All-GLVC in the distance medley relay.
The preliminaries for the mile will be March 9 at 3:30 p.m. with the finals scheduled for March 10 at 5:40 p.m. The championships will be streamed live on NCAA.com.
